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Hang it!" suddenly; "this street doesn't look familiar. I ought to have reached Scott Circle by this time. Ah! here's a broader street," going lickety-clip into Vermont. A glass went jingling to the pavement. "Oho! Nancy will be jumping out the next thing. This will never do." He began to draw in. Hark! His trained trooper's ear heard other hoofs beating on the iron-like surface of the pavement.
The camp of the Fifth Vermont was established a fourth of a mile from that of the Seventy-seventh, its lines joining ours on the left. On the bank of the river just below our camp, was the residence of Mr. Hart and a grist-mill; hence the place was called "Hart's Mills."
Seeing a paper at his feet I picked it up and it was my lost ticket. Joshua made the sun stand still by prayer. Elijah closed the heavens from raining on the earth and raised the dead. It is not strange that God should answer my prayer in this case. In six weeks I returned home leaving Charlien, who went to Vermont to visit some of her father's relatives, the Gloyds.
It tells how Major MacIver, accompanied by Major Gillespie, met, just outside of Vicksburg, Captain Tomlin of Vermont, of the United States Artillery Volunteers. The duel was with swords. MacIver ran Tomlin through the body. The correspondent writes: "The Confederate officer wiped his sword on his handkerchief. In a few seconds Captain Tomlin expired.
They supposed he was intoxicated, and fell, striking his head upon the andiron, which stunned him; and while he lay helpless, he was so badly burned that he soon died. And that was the last of poor old Zigzag." "There was another story Uncle James used to tell, about the naming of Barre, in Vermont; do you recollect it, mother?" inquired Mrs. Preston. "Yes, indeed, and I 've heard old Dr.
A body of five hundred men led by Lieutenant Colonel Addison W. Preston of the First Vermont cavalry was to start out from our camp by the Mechanicsville road, charge in, release the prisoners and bring them out, Kilpatrick covering the movement with his entire command.
But at Bennington the hardy yeomen of New Hampshire, Vermont, and Massachusetts, many of them fresh from the plough and unused to the camp, "advanced," as General Stark expresses it in his official letter, "through fire and smoke, and mounted breastworks that were well fortified and defended with cannon."
On the 10th of June, 184-, five or six inches of snow fell in Northern Vermont. A remarkable instance of the influence of new circumstances upon birds was observed upon the establishment of a light-house on Cape Cod some years since.
"I have acted several times as counsel before his committees. He is an excellent chairman, always attentive and generally civil." "Where was he born?" "The family is a New England one, and I believe respectable. He came, I think, from some place in the Connecticut Valley, but whether Vermont, New Hampshire, or Massachusetts, I don't know." "Is he an educated man?"
Williams of Oregon on the first Monday of December, 1866, introduced a bill "to regulate the tenure of civil offices." It was referred to the Committee on Retrenchment, and reported back with amendment by Mr. Edmunds of Vermont, who thenceforward assumed parliamentary control of the subject. The bill came up for discussion on the 10th day of January.
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